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Harry Mazer

A Boy at War

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

A Boy No More by Harry Mazer (2004)

The second in the series, this novel finds Adam, having moved to California with Bea and his mother, faced with the daunting task of trying to help Davi, who in the wake of WWII has been sent to a Japanese internment camp.

Heroes Don’t Run by Harry Mazer (2005)

This is the third novel in the series. Defying his mother and falsifying his age, Adam enlists in the marines and is sent to fight in Okinawa, Japan, where he confronts the horrifying realities of war and the complexities of his relationship with his late father. 

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

The National Park Service’s official website, with various resources related to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the maintenance of the wreckage of the USS Arizona as a national historic site.

Video & Podcast Resources

A newsreel from 1941 featuring footage from the attack on Pearl Harbor, released by the United States Navy.

A 2016 documentary produced by PBS following a team of scientists on Oahu as they use submersible technology to explore the wreckage of the Arizona.

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